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Patented Nov. 11, 1941 UNITED STATES Parr-1a'1rIV OFFICE l BLLIARD TABLE i Harry Kellerman, New York, N.A Application February 12, 1940, vSerial No.` 318,435

6 Claims.

This invention relates to billiard tables and more specifically to a billiard table having interior angles between adjacent cushions greater than right angles.

In general, it is an object of the invention to provide a device of the character described, which will efliciently perform the purposes for which it is intended, which is simple and economical of construction, which can be expeditiously and conveniently manipulated, and which can be readily manufactured and assembled.

Another object of the invention is to provide a billiard table in which the horizontal support for the playing surface is itself carried at points more or less medial between the center and the periphery of the surface; and to provide a billiard cushion wherein the weight of the table top is carried by radial horizontal supports.

Other objects of the invention will in part be obvious and will in part appear hereinafter.

The invention accordingly comprises the features of construction, combination of elements and arrangement of parts which will be exemplied in the construction hereinafter set forth and the scope of the application of which will be indicated in the claims.

For a fuller understanding of the nature and objects of the invention, reference should be had to the following detailed description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, in

which: i

Figure 1 is a plan view of the top of a game table, with pockets, embodying one form of the invention, the right hand side having the upper table surface and cushions removed;

Fig. 2 is a View in cross-section of the device shown in Fig. l and taken along a radius thereof, the upright supports also being shown;

Fig. 3 is a view in elevation of the device shown in Fig. 1, taken perpendicular to another radius thereof;

Fig. 4 is a sectional view in elevation of the center and one side of the device shown in Figs. 2 and 3;

Fig. 5 is a view similar to Fig. 1 showing certain surfaces, partially removed, of the top of a game table without pockets;

Fig. 6 is a View in elevation of the device shown in Fig. 5, the right hand side being in section and taken along the line 6-6 of Fig. 5, the supports also being shown; and

Fig. 7 is a view similar to Fig. 6 and taken along the line 1--1 of Fig. 5.

In the drawings, I0 denotes the top of a billiard table of the pool table type. Legs I2 are posi- (Cl. 273--3) y tioned between the center and the periphery of the table top which is polygonal in shape and may have the form of `a pentagon, hexagon, septagon, Octagon or other many-sided figures. The shapes preferably are equilateral and equi-angular. This is not necessarily so, however.

The immediate supporting structure for the table top comprises `a plurality of horizontal, spaced, radially extending arms I4. These arms are supported at a point between their inner and outer ends either by thelegs I2 directly or by a rim I6 lwhich is carried by the legs at their top. The radial arms I4 may be centrally connected in any convenient fashion, either directly to each other or by each being connected to a -central plate I8. The outer ends of the arms are connected by peripheral elements which preferably coincide with the sides of the polygon of the top. In the type of table shown in Fig. 1, the peripheral elements 20 do not meet at the corners of the table but reach only to a point short of the corners, whereby openings 22 in the corners are left, leading to downwardly extending tracks 24 in which balls may be carried to a common recovery box 26. The radial arms near the corners are preferably arranged with Va pair at each corner, one arm leading to one side of the opening 22 and the other arm leading to the other side. These may be connected at a point radially inward of the opening by element 28.

There is, of course, the usual rim for the table with the usual pockets 32 coincident with the openings 22. Boarding 34 or other surface material may be laid upon the arms I4 and carry the usual felt 36 as the uppermost material.

In Figs. 5-7, there is shown a billiard table without pockets. Its construction is in general similar to that described above except that there are no downwardly extending tracks for conveying balls from the pockets. As in the table of Figs. 1-5, there may be paneling 38 enclosing the legs I2 and underlying that portion of the table which is radially outward of those legs. There may be a metal band 39 at the bottom of the paneling 38. In Fig. 5, between the boarding 34 and the outermost layer 36 of the table, there are shown two other layers 40 and 42 of various materials.

Since certain changes vmay be made in the above construction and different embodiments of the invention could be made without departing from the scope thereof, itis intended that all -matter contained in the above description or shown in the accompanying drawings vshall be a limiting vertical axis, horizontal supports adapted for carrying a top and carried by the rst-mentione'd supports and extending radially with respect to said axis, means for structurally tying together said horizontal supports at their inner ends," pe-l cover all the generic andl tially radial supports adapted for supporting a polygonal top, each of said pairs comprising two spaced supports leading respectively to the sides of, and adjacent the apex of, one of the angles of the polygon of the top.

4. A billiard table supporting meansl comprising a pair of horizontal, substantially radial,A spaced supports adapted for supporting a polygonal top and leading respectively to the sides of, and adjacent the apex of, -one ofthe angles of the polygon of the top. Y f

5. A billiard table supporting means comprisf ing horizontal supports for an equilaterally poripheral elements structurally tying together the outer ends of said horizontal supports, and rim elements detachably connected tosaid peripheral elementsf l f y 2. Av billiard table supporting means comprising a plurality of pairs of horizontal, substantially radial supports adapted` for supporting a polygonal top, each of said pairs comprising two spaced supports leading respectively to the sides offjone of the angles of the polygon of the top, a central element to which said pairs are attached, andperipheral supporting elements to which said pairs are attached.

' BfA billiard-table supporting means comprisinga plurality of pairslof' horizontal, substanangle of said 'polygon lygonal top and extending radially and meeting the periphery of the polygon of the top adjacent and at the side of respective angles of said polygon whereby there is a space left beneath said whereby a trough may be brought down therethrough from a pocket in a corner of an equilateral-shaped top.

6. A billiard Atablesupporting means comprising supports aboutv and-spaced from` a central vertical axis, and horizontal supports adapted for carrying a top and carried by the first-mentioned supports and extending radially inward and outward thereof .from substantially saidy axis substantially to the periphery of a predetermined polygon, predetermined to be substantially identical with the rperiphery ofwhatever top is expected to be supportedby said support. j

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